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PART I

Inspiration

And then there is inspiration. Where does it come from? Mostly from the excitement of living. I get it from the diversity of a tree or the ripple of the sea, a bit of poetry, the sighting of a dolphin breaking the still water and moving toward me, anything that quickens you to the instant. And whether one would call this inspiration or necessity, I really do not know.

—Martha Graham, Blood Memories

Casa Grande Ruins. Infrared photograph by Phil Cousineau, 2006.

Uroboros, medieval symbol of circularity, eternity, and self-knowledge. From Horapollio's Selecta Hieroglyphica, 1597.